River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-08-04

York ON the 18th, in search of his wife.
Mrs. Van Heyst and Van Doren arrived on
the 18th inst, bringing with them Van
Heyst's three-year-old daughter and $1,000
forms, which Mrs. Van Heyst cribbed from
her husbands store. The husband left for
Easton, Pa, where the guilty pair are de-
tanned pending habeas corpus proceedings
The first report of the commission,
composed of Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop Kahn
and Bishop Curtis, having charge of the
Roman Catholic missions for the colored
people and the Indians, shsws that the
total returns up to July % amounted to Sll,-
070, of which S5s, S2 were disbursed. The
arch diocese of Philadelphia contributed
Sll,G07, New York SS,l70, Boston $3.50.
Brooklyn S4,S76, Cincinnati 8, 200: These
missions were decreed by the third plenary
council.
Mrs. Lille Schlimmer, aged 10, while
walking with her mother and grandmother
in Jersey City, ". j., Monday afternoon,
was murdered by her husband. The mar
riage of the child-wife had been agreed to
10y her parents on condition she should not
live with her husband for two years. He
had tried to persuade her to break the agree
ment and failing, murdered her, placing his
pistol to her breast The murderer fed.
The following is published at New
York: There is such excitement among
tobacco dealers and manufacturers at the
present time as has not been known for
years, and prices for leaf tobacco have adj
yanced from 80 to 100 per cent during July
and the end is not yet. Manufacturers
have been sending up their prices in re-
Spouse to the demands made upon them by
the controllers of the leaf supply.
At Camden. n. j., w. w. Wiltshire,
aged -, on Monday, killed his wife Ella,
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Peace and rounded up the tragedy by
killing himself. He had been sued by his
wife for support. They had 3 children,
aged q, II and 10 years. The tragedy oc-
CURED at the office of the Justice, and as
the wife was relating her tale of abuse from
her husband.
At Jersey City, n. j., on Wednes-
day, Charles Reed, the Chicago lawyer and
counsel for Guiteau, Garfield's assassin was
forbidden to again enter Ruch's Hotel,
where he has been in the habit of taking his
meals. This action was taken at the in
stance of the head waiter, who alleged that
he had caught Reed in an attempt to rob
the money drawer.
A sloop yacht having on board a
party of twelve business men of Philadel-
phia, set out Saturday for two weeks
pleasure trip, and had but Just started
down the Delaware river when a sudden
squat capsized the yatch, and ThOs
Kennedy prominent member of the party
was drowned and also the colored cook.
About 20 houses in Northampton
county and eight in Warren county, N. j.,
were damaged by lightning Monday.
Many cellars were flooded by heavy rains.
The damage to streets and pavements in
Easton ami South Easton, Pa, by washouts
is estimated at $1,000.
Wall Street witnessed a tumble in
stocks Saturday all along the line, gilt
edge1 with the rest, from 3 to So per cent.
There were no large failures, and the two
hours during Saturday allowed for business,
closed with a better feeling than they
opened.
At South Norwalk, Conn.,, Aug. /,
a young lady walking along the road to
Darien was struck by lightning and instant
" killed. a man named Starr Keller, while
sitting in his boat, was struck and his eye
sight totally destroyed.
the largest steamboat in the world is
to be built for the Fail River line. 1t will
be called the Puritan and will be 404 feet
long at the water line. She will have 355
state rooms will cost $4,000 and will be
finished in May, 1889
July 81, was hot day in many pOr-
tons of the country; eight deaths from sun
stroke were reported at Philadelphia, Pa,
and a number at New York city, where 10
unattended persons died.
AT New York City, on the 25th., a
building in West Thirteenth street, occu-
pied by Fleitchmann's Vienna bakery, was
burned with fOrtV-piVht horses Loss SNl
coo.
At meeting of the Massachusetts
Republican state central committee it was
voted to hold the state convention in Bos-
ton, Sept. > next.
In fit of jealousy Geo. Whelsteen,
aged 20 killed his wife aged 30 and himself,
at Bridgeport, Conn, on Monday.